Animal-Kind International Blog

Each AKI Blog post features an AKI Partner Organization, AKI Grant Recipient, or an individual or organization making a difference for animals in low income/resource-poor countries, where there is very little public support for animal welfare. In posts about our supported organizations, you'll also find details of how they use your donations to AKI.

Animal-Kind International

Mar 23, 2019

How Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras Uses Your Donations to AKI

During 2018, HHHH used AKI funds for dog and cat food to feed animals at the HHHH Sanctuary, for medicine and vet supplies, surgeries (including spay/neuter), to place concrete in the dog yard (supplies and compensation for workers), and to pay local people to help clean the Sanctuary (see chart). Here are some of the animals that have been helped thanks to your donations and some of the volunteers and adopters who help HHHH rescue and rehabilitate animals-in-need. Pilar foun

Animal-Kind International

Dec 11, 2018

Honduras: A 40 year perspective on animal welfare and the environment

Pilar Thorn is founder and director of AKI Partner Organization, Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras. I came to Honduras 49 years ago as a Peace Corps Volunteer to teach biology at the UNAH (Honduran National Autonomous University), where I taught for 40 years. As a biologist, Honduras was a paradise with its beautiful dense cloud, rain, and dry forests, as well as untouched coral reefs in the second largest reef in the world (after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia) with

Animal-Kind International

Dec 14, 2017

Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras: How HHHH used AKI funds (September-December 2017)

Here's HHHH's report on what they've been able to do thanks to AKI donor funds (disbursement 2 of 2017, received 31 August). But 1st, here's an update on Spot, whose case we featured in the previous AKI Blog about HHHH. Pilar found Spot when searching for another dog who had been reported to her. Spot was living at a lumber yard (1st picture below, yes Spot is the brown dog), was chained, starving, and had paraphimosis, an inability to retract his penis into the sheath. Pilar

Animal-Kind International

Aug 31, 2017

An early morning phone call leads to a string of rescues in Tegucigalpa

I (Karen) spoke to Pilar (Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras) about 10 days ago, and she told me about the rescues detailed below. AKI donors support HHHH by providing funds for sanctuary operations, including cat and dog food, medicines, vet care (including spay/neuter), and renovations. The HHHH Sanctuary (the Nereida Montes de Oca Sanctuary) cares for about 25 cats and dogs, many with very serious physical or emotional issues, who may need lifetime care. In early August,

Animal-Kind International

Feb 18, 2017

Here's Who's At Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras (as of 18 Feb 2017)

It's been a while since we updated you on who's at Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras Nereida Montes de Oca sanctuary. The HHHH sanctuary cares for the "throwaways," the dogs and cats that need intensive care to recover, and some who never will fully recover. AKI donors cover costs of vet care, spay/neuter, dog and cat food, and shelter infrastructure repairs. I've written the backstory of most of the dogs below and here's a brief update on some of the dogs who are now at H

Animal-Kind International

Jul 25, 2016

Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras: How AKI donors helped during 2016

AKI donors helped HHHH during the 1st few months of 2016 by providing funds for vet care, spay/neuter, dog and cat food, and construction of one kennel (at a cost of US$400) at the HHHH sanctuary. Two more kennels still need to be repaired at a cost of about US$600. We hope to raise enough money to finish these sanctuary repairs before 2016 ends, while continuing to provide the funds needed for HHHH to conduct their life saving rescue work. These are some of the recipients o

Animal-Kind International

Apr 23, 2016

How We've Helped Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras, August-December 2015

AKI sends 3 disbursements a year to our partner organizations. They use AKI donor funds for their priority needs, as long as they are directly related to animal care and welfare. For Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras, AKI donors are the main source of funds to care for about 25 old or injured dogs and 5 cats, some of whom will need a lifetime of care, often because of the cruelty inflicted on them by humans. Pilar at HHHH helps them forget their past, teaches them to trust

Animal-Kind International

Nov 30, 2015

AKI: Helping in Honduras

Helping Hands for Hounds of Honduras has been an AKI partner organization since 2007--since the start of AKI. We think of Pilar, founder of HHHH, as a miracle worker, an angel watching over dogs and cats. When you read these rescue stories (including Molly's-in the picture above)--a compilation of some we've received from Pilar between 2009-2012, you'll see why. We have many more stories of incredible and heartwarming rescues on the HHHH page and in the HHHH photo album on th